You can record your slide show to capture narration and slide timings at the same time. If you’re planning to save your presentation as a movie file, narrating and varying the slide timings are great ways to make it less static. Or, you can record your slide show to archive a meeting, so that presenters or absent team members can review the presentation later and hear any comments made during the presentation.
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To do this procedure, your computer must be equipped with a sound card, microphone, and speakers. Make sure that you aren't running any other sound recording applications, such as Speech Recognition.
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Recording slide timings will also record the timing and duration of animation effects and the use of any triggers on your slide. You can turn the timings off when you don't want the presentation to use them.
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Do any of the following:
 | Record a presentation |
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In the navigation pane, click the slide that you want to start with.
| How to select slides in the navigation pane
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On the Slide Show tab, under Presenter Tools, click Record Slide Show.
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The recording automatically starts when you enter presenter view; however, you can pause and then restart the recording when you need to. Do any of the following:
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Pause the recording | Click  |
Continue the recording | Click  |
Reset the recording for the current slide | Click  |
Advance to the next or previous slide | Click  |
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When you reach the last slide or exit presenter view, PowerPoint
prompts you to save the timings.
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In slide sorter view you can see the timing for each slide.
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An audio icon  appears in the lower-right corner of each slide that has narration. However, this icon is not visible to the audience during a slide show.
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| Change the narration on a slide |
When you change the narration for a single slide, the timing is also updated.
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In the navigation pane, select the slide for which you want to change the narration.
| How to select slides in the navigation pane
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On the Slide Show tab, under Presenter Tools, click Record Slide Show.
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When you are finished recording, click Exit Show or press
ESC.
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When prompted to save the timings, click Yes.
| Note To delete the narration from a slide, select the audio icon on the slide, and then press
DELETE. |
| Set slide timings manually |
PowerPoint
will automatically record your slide timings when you record the slide show or you can manually set the slide timings to accompany your narration.
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In the navigation pane, select the slide or slides for which you want to manually set slide timing.
| How to select slides in the navigation pane
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On the Transitions tab, under Advance Slide, select the After check box, and then type the number of seconds.
| Turn off narration or slide timings before you play a slide show |
Turning off the narration and slide timings does not delete them. You can turn the narration or timings back on at any time without having to recreate them.
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Do one of the following:
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Turn off slide timings | On the Slide Show tab, under Set Up, clear the Use Timings check box. 
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Turn off narrations for all slides | On the Slide Show tab, under Set Up, clear the Play Narrations check box.
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tab, and then click a slide.
and 
named tabs or the 
icon tabs.